On 01/16/2012 06:25 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2012-01-16 14:46-0700 Orion Poplawski wrote: > >> - split has now be removed from octave in favor of strsplit: >> >> 6: error: `split' undefined near line 3 column 5 >> >> I believe this has been raised before but was decided to stay with split at >> the time for octave 3.0 support. > > Thanks for bringing this up, Orion. The rest of this is primarily > to Andrew. > > Hi Andrew: > > Out of curiosity I looked up that discussion, and the 2010-07-26 > conclusion by you was > > "strsplit was only introduced in octave3.2 so I do not (yet) want to > switch to it. Octave 3.0 is still widely used. Everything else in > plplot just requires 3.0." > > Of course, now is almost a year and a half later, and I therefore > think now would be a good time (especially since split is causing > obvious problems for the most recent octave release) for you to > replace split with strsplit and mention in the release notes that the > minimum version of octave we now support is 3.2. > >> From what Orion says, EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) users > apparently only have access to Octave 3.0, and I assume that most > enterprise distros also have similar Octave version constraints. But I > don't think we have to be too concerned about such cases since older > PLplot versions should satisfy most "enterprise" needs. Furthermore, > with regard to "modern" (i.e., non-enterprise) distros, probably > Debian stable is the oldest of those, and it installs Octave 3.2.4-8 > where split was already deprecated in favour of strsplit.
Could this get addressed soon? plplot currently cannot be rebuilt for octave 3.6.0 in Fedora rawhide. Thanks! -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA, Boulder Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane or...@cora.nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
